My "Best Books of 2022" List by Categories I’ve Made Up

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Best Emotional Blindside: Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

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Best Title, Backed Up by Excellent Memoir: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

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Best One-Sitting Read: Foster by Claire Keegan

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Best Ending of an Amazing Book About Endings: All the Living and the Dead

by Hayley Campbell

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Best Dressed Protagonist: Less by Andrew Sean Greer

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Best Whiplash Between Tragedy and Raucous Comedy: Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham

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Best Feminist Period Piece that I Loved So Much I Wanted to Marry It: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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Best Book About 90s Gaming and So Much More: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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Best Made-Me-Physically-Ill but Worth it Book: What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

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Best “How the Fuck is Stuff Like This Still Happening?” Book: How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith